Just a heads up for those of you in NZ or hosting LPARs running NZ local time.....
On one of our test systems after upgrading from z/OS 1.5 to z/OS 1.7, we encountered LE/370 abends if the offset between GMT & Local exceeded +13hrs. IBM have raised APAR PK25397 to address this issue. So...on October 1st, if you're going to change your offset via the SET CLOCK command and you are running z/OS 1.7, be a bit more careful than usual to ensure that you don't exceed +13hrs, if you do, by even a second, you'll encounter LE/370 abends in your batch & online. Extract from APAR: ERROR DESCRIPTION: If the SET CLOCK (or even SET DATE) command is used to set the local time such that the offset from GMT is outside the -12 to +13 hours range, the following message is issued:- CEE2503S The offset from UTC/GMT to local time was not available from the system. OR the following message:- CEEGMTO failed with message number 2503 However, the CLOCKxx parmlib member allows for 15 hours east or west of GMT. Since +/-15 hours is acceptable as an offset from GMT, LE time and date services must allow the same offsets under the z/OS 1.7 environment. Additional symptoms: USER COMPLETION CODE=4087 REASON CODE=00000008 U4087 Cheers...Jason. National Australia Bank Ltd - ABN 12 004 044 937 This email may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately notify us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by replying to the sender, and then destroy all copies of this email. Except where this email indicates otherwise, views expressed in this email are those of the sender and not of National Australia Bank Ltd. Advice in this email does not take account of your objectives, financial situation, or needs. It is important for you to consider these matters and, if the e-mail refers to a product(s), you should read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement(s)/other disclosure document(s) before making any decisions. If you do not want email marketing from us in future, forward this email with "unsubscribe" in the subject line to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in order to stop marketing emails from this sender. National Australia Bank Ltd does not represent that this email is free of errors, viruses or interference. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
